Words / A2

WOSH-ing/ˈwɒʃɪŋ/

Washing is clothes that need washing or have just been washed: hang the washing out, a pile of washing, do the washing. Laundry is a close cousin, often the room or the service. Washing machine is the appliance. Uncountable. Do not write wishing (hoping) for washing.

Meaning

Clothes that need to be washed, or that have just been washed.

Examples

• “Please hang the washing out to dry.”
• “The washing dried quickly in the wind.”
• “He forgot the washing in the machine overnight.”

Good to know

hang the washing out / do the washing (uncountable). Cousin: laundry. Mix-up: wishing.

Near in meaning

laundry

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